I’m a full-stack engineer with 10+ years of experience shipping production web apps, SaaS products, and data-heavy platforms. I like building things that get used every day — not demos, not experiments, but software that carries real workloads.
Experience
2021 — Now
2021 — Now
Charlotte, NC
• I moved RAIN’s clinical HIV Case Management platform from a brittle monolith to a Next.js 14 and .NET 8 architecture.
• I replaced our unreliable legacy data ingestion scripts with a robust Java and Spring Boot microservice that handles the heavy lifting of parsing and validating 100,000+ clinical records daily for our CDC exports.
• To speed up feature delivery, I established organization-wide "AI Catalyst" playbooks including repository-level .cursorrules and AI-assisted PR review heuristics, boosting individual throughput by 40% for the entire engineering team.
• I architected the clinical integration layer using SMART on FHIR standards and AWS PrivateLink to ensure that Protected Health Information (PHI) never crossed the public internet during hospital EHR syncs.
• During a peak STI testing surge, I optimized the Mobile Testing Unit app to handle a 4x traffic spike with zero downtime by implementing Redis caching and a custom circuit breaker pattern in our microservices.
• Developed authenticated admin portals in TypeScript and Node.js with fine-grained RBAC enforced at both API and UI layers, then hardened those controls to ensure only authorized providers could access PHI.
• I identified a persistent memory leak in our messaging service that was spiking execution costs, refactoring the Node.js implementation dropped our monthly AWS Lambda bill by 22%.
• I rebuilt our CI/CD in GitHub Actions and automated the dev-environment setup via Terraform, which cut developer onboarding time from 3 days to under 4 hours.
• I developed the Python and SQL ETL pipelines for CDC reporting, replacing a manual workflow that was eating 15 hours a week from the operations team.
• I mentored 5 junior engineers on Clean Architecture and SOLID principles. 3 of them were promoted to Senior roles while I was here.
• I was promoted to Senior Software Engineer within 18 months because of my leadership in legacy modernization.
2019 — 2026
2019 — 2026
9545 Pinnacle Dr Suite A Charlotte, NC 28262
Full Service Catering Co Specializing in Corporate Catering, Private Catering, Personal Chef Services, Baking, Smoking and Grill Pit Master.
2019 — 2021
2019 — 2021
Charlotte, NC
• I architected a custom Power BI reporting suite that integrated directly with the iLEVEL API to track over $5B in Assets Under Management (AUM) across 30+ portfolio companies.
• I maintained legacy Angular dashboards for private equity stakeholders while incrementally migrating core modules to React and Next.js, improving platform load speed by 35%.
• Investors used to wait 24 hours for portfolio snapshots, so I implemented a Kafka-based event pipeline that reduced turnaround time to under 60 seconds.
• Collaborated with Investment Partners to translate complex private equity requirements into high performance technical specs for the internal LP Portal.
• I designed the auth and RBAC systems for our Limited Partner (LP) portal using .NET Core and Node.js, ensuring 100% compliance with high-stakes financial governance audits.
• I found a massive bottleneck in the SQL Server schema that was dragging down performance; after I refactored the queries and tuned the indexes, the platform was 40% faster.
• Designed high-integrity ETL workflows using SQL Server and MySQL to validate accuracy for portfolio snapshots used in multi-million dollar investment pivots.
• I re-engineered broken data feeds from SpendHQ and Momentive using resilient error-handling logic in Python, bringing our daily platform uptime to 99.9%.
• I was the first person on the team to champion the adoption of GitHub Copilot to accelerate the creation of complex financial data utilities and internal reporting tools.
• I set up our first automated testing and deployment workflows using GitHub Actions, which cut the time we spent on manual QA every Friday in half.
2014 — 2019
2014 — 2019
Acworth, Georgia
Moving, Deliveries, Labor and more
2014 — 2018
2014 — 2018
Charlotte, NC
• During a client onboarding, I performed a proactive audit of their cloud spend and identified $40k/month in "leakage" from orphaned Azure resources. I built a React-based TCO tool to prevent recurrence.
• I engineered a cloud-native SaaS platform for scoring 600+ IT vendors using a React frontend and a PHP/Laravel backend gateway that handled vendor data ingestion.
• I incrementally replaced legacy Angular components with React micro-services, which reduced our production frontend bundle size by 35% and improved UX metrics.
• I managed our AWS deployments using Docker and Kubernetes to maintain 99.9% availability for enterprise clients.
• Standardized deployment environments through Terraform, cutting environment setup time for new clients from 3 days to 4 hours.
• I integrated the Salesforce and ServiceNow APIs to automate client data ingestion, saving the operations team an estimated 30+ labor hours every week.
• I set up Datadog monitoring and centralized logging to track system health, which reduced our incident resolution time by 40%.
• I partnered with IT leaders to design infrastructure-centric dashboards that improved strategic decisionmaking and vendor ROI analysis.
• I conducted deep system analysis to scale platform capabilities, reducing end-user latency by 30% for high-volume vendor evaluation requests.
Education
University of North Carolina at Charlotte